AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD Expansionism v Imperialism Formal

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • Expansionism v. Imperialism • Formal v. Informal Empire

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • American Foreign Policy Before 1890 s • Why Overseas Involvement in the 1890 s – Closing of the internal frontier – Desire to acquire overseas markets – Racial nationalism (“civilizing mission”) • A progressive urge? – Prestige factor • Alfred Thayer Mahan

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • Spanish-American War: an important break with previous patterns of U. S. expansion • Alaska and Hawai’i • Cuba and the Spanish-American War of 1898 – Cuban revolution (“Butcher Weyler”)

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD Why did the U. S. get involved in Cuba in 1898? Sinking of the U. S. S. Maine – February 1898

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • Teller Amendment • “A splendid little war”

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • Acquisition of colonies: Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines • Anti-Imperialist League

AMERICA ENTERS THE WOLRD • Platt Amendment and Cuban independence • Filipino-American War – Emilio Aguinaldo – Insular Cases (1901) – Gen. Jacob Smith

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • Creating a New American Foreign Policy – Teddy Roosevelt and Big-Stick Diplomacy in Latin America • Panama and the Canal Zone • Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD – William Taft and Dollar Diplomacy – Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy